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Micro Center is a great chain of stores which I highly recommend for
those tired of the CompUSA/Circuit City/Best Buy "experience". Micro
Center is really a breath of fresh air, combining solid house brand
and national brand PCs, components, reference books, and a sizable Mac
section. You can go in and ask for an RJ-45 crimper and they don't
look at you like you just beamed down from a spaceship.

A typical Micro Center experience: My wife and I went in looking for a
flash RAM card for our new Kodak DC-50. The salesman looked over the
existing RAM selections, and when we expressed interest in a 15MB
Sandisk card, he said, "Hmm. What's the resolution on the DC-50?
706x504?", and he proceeded to calculate the uncompressed image size
to try and figure out how many pictures the card would hold. We
reminded him that it used JPEG compression, so he voluntarily located
a DC-50 box and tried to back-calculate the compression ratio of the
various quality settings based on the information on the outside of
the box.

Note that we never asked him for this information, as we could compute
it ourselves. He did it _because he didn't want us to buy something we
wouldn't be happy with_, and for his own personal satisfaction he
wanted to make sure we got a flash RAM card with enough memory for our
needs.

The only problems with Micro Center is that their software selection
is not that good (particularly with new titles) and they have few
locations. There are only 13 stores nationwide.

But thank goodness we have one in Houston!

Rick R. // peripherals.guide@about.com
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